alienation

Noun

Meaning

The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.

A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.

A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.

Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

estrangement disaffection impressionism derangement division excommunication rift dissociation mania separation divorce withdrawal isolation anxiety breach
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Antonyms

amity alliance sapience community chemistry connector
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Hypernyms

action transfer isolation dislike transference

Hyponyms

isolation

Phrases with the word

alienation from one's own identity feeling of alienation mental alienation alienation from society alienation issues

Anagrams

alineation

Examples

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. Susan Sontag

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. Ronald David Laing

The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation. Che Guevara

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. Roland Barthes

Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself. Nikolai Berdyaev

The degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others. Erving Goffman

Close letter words and terms

alienatedly alienating alienatingly alienation from one's own identity alienation from society alienation issues